Weekly Music News 07.08.22
A roundup of music news for the week beginning August 7, 2022.
Israeli metal band "Prey For Nothing" have signed with Italy's international label Wormholedeath.
The band have released four albums to date, most recently last year's "Kivshan". Previously released only in Israel, it will now be distributed by their new label in Europe, Japan and the United States.
A legendary mini-reunion of Black Sabbath !!
This week, at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in their hometown of Birmingham, Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi took the stage with Adam Wakeman on bass and Tommy Clufetos on drums. They played a short "Iron Man" intro followed by Black Sabbath's "Paranoid".
The storm around "Stranger Things" refuses to die down... This time, some of the show's young fans are directing "cancel culture" at "Metallica", whose popularity surged last month after "Master Of Puppets" featured in the climax of the show's fourth season. TikTok creator Serena Trueblood, who makes the "Is Your Fav Problematic" series, released a video accusing the band of antisemitism, racism and more. See the link here.
How about a concert celebrating the wonderfully crazy "South Park"? Now add Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson sharing a stage for the first time since drummer Neil Peart's death. It happened this week on the second night of South Park's 25th-anniversary celebrations at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver. Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone brought Primus and Ween together for two sold-out nights of wild, strange, moving comedy and music. Back in 1997, Parker and Stone asked Primus to record the show's iconic theme. At the concert, Les Claypool performed it wearing the same red-striped coat as his animated self in the opening sequence. The two Rush members played "Closer to the Heart" with Primus and two drummers attempting to fill Neil Peart's shoes: Matt Stone, one of the event's organizers and the show's creators, and Primus drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander.
"Rage Against the Machine" are cancelling their European tour, which was due to begin on August 24 in Edinburgh. As we reported here about a month ago, singer Zack De La Rocha seriously injured his leg on July 11 while running onstage during the second show of the band's first tour since 2010. Since then, Zack has performed seated, with crew carrying him on and off the stage each night.
At a "Green Day" show in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, singer Billie Joe Armstrong invited ten-year-old fan Montgomery onstage to play with the band. Montgomery impressed the cheering crowd, and at the end Armstrong told him he could keep the guitar!
An inflatable Ozzy Osbourne, about eight meters tall, will promote the Prince of Darkness's next album, "Patient Number 9". It was first unveiled in July at Comic-Con, San Diego's annual comics and multi-genre entertainment convention. With the album due on September 9, fans will have the chance to see the giant, designed by artist Todd McFarlane, in selected cities ahead of release.
"Collective Soul" release "Vibrating" today. In 2019, the band released their tenth studio album, "Blood", originally intended as the first half of a double album. The pandemic changed those plans, and the unreleased tracks from those sessions became their eleventh studio album.
Listen on: Spotify
"Megadeth" are releasing another single from "The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!", "Soldier On!". Now we just have to wait for the video that completes the trilogy telling Vic Rattlehead's story.
Ahead of October's new album, "Complete Collapse", "Sleeping With Sirens" are releasing two new singles. "Let You Down" features Charlotte Sands, while the other is "Ctrl + Alt + Del". Listen to it here: Spotify
Well, this is awkward... "Weezer" have cancelled next month's planned Broadway residency. The band were due to celebrate "SZNZ", their series of season-themed EPs, with five nights of performances, each also promising a unique set of classics. Now they say the shows have been cancelled because of "low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses".
"Young Guns" are coming back to life!!
If you know your music history or have read some of our reviews, you will know that tribute shows can be a recipe for a reunion. A band splits, then gets together for a special performance, and the spark returns to their eyes and the passion flows through their veins again. It often leads to a tour, another album, or a fresh start.
This time it is our beloved Young Guns. After their guest appearance at 2000trees, the sparks returned. Now they are heading out on their first UK headline tour in six years, celebrating the tenth anniversary of "Bones".
We have barely recovered from their show in Israel, and Swedish melodic death metal band "Arch Enemy" release "Deceivers" today. It is their eleventh studio album and their first since 2017's "Will to Power", marking their longest gap between studio albums.
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